Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

I absolutley loved this book. Most books/stories are told with full sentences and give descriptions of what is happening throughout the book. For example in a regular story the boy would explain what poem the teacher handed out and why they are reading the poem, etc. In the poem there isn't much description or detail of what happens, it just happens. There is more inferring and exploring on the readers part of the book. It's not very long and one line can be one word long but it goes along so well with the the boy.

At the beginning of the book I wondered why he was writing seperate poems about a blue mustang, how it couldn't slow down, his neighborhoond, and his dog. I figured this novel would have to be about a dog somehow beause that is what the title is but I never thought the many poems he wrote at the beginning would combine into a wonderful poem that explains his feelings for his dog and what happend to his dog, Sky. This was a very quick read but it kept me wanting more and wondering what was going to happen.